Word: hards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play hockey or lacrosse, pole vault, or fence. But you can do the broad jump, the hop, step, and jump, the standing high jump, and the shot put. You can also run races, though for that there has to be a special equipment and because this equipment is hard to fix up for long distances blind men usually only run sprints...
With examinations over there is nothing for the oarsmen to worry about but rowing, and all three crews as well as the Yale combinations are settling down to a week of hard training prepatory to the race on June...
...expending his energy. Of course if the first American was not called back he would undoubtedly win. But if he did not get away with it, then the next American would try, and the next, until each American would have started twice, while Abrahams would have had to start hard eight times. In that many chances it was very probable that one American would get away. But if no one did, it would not make any difference, because Abrahams would be so worn out from his eight trials that an American would win anyway...
Physically he is frail, and, when working hard, fidgety. The condition is largely the result of an accident a score of years ago. He was on a week-end visit at the country home near Milwaukee of Ann McEldin Douglass, his fiancee.* Mrs. Douglass with the young people was at the railroad station. Along the tracks went an express train, and across the tracks a huge St. Bernard dog. The train batted the huge dog through the air. The dog struck Mr. Dillon in the stomach and knocked him toward a lamp post. On the way he struck Mrs. Douglass...
...business. J. Will Neal and his son, J. Robert Neal, are vice presidents at Houston where the company has one of its seven coffee-blending factories and distributing plants. President is Joel O. Cheek, 75. For two years now his sons have managed to keep him from working hard. But he is at the Nashville offices almost every...